Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81046 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/008
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We provide an axiomatic treatment of the measurement of economic insecurity, assuming that individual insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. The first component plays the role of a buffer stock to rely on in case of an adverse future event. The second component determines the confidence an individual has on his ability to overcome a loss in the future. Experiences in the recent past are given higher weight than experiences that occurred in the more distant past. Two classes of measures are characterized with sets of plausible and intuitive axioms.
Subjects: 
insecurity
wealth streams
economic index numbers
JEL: 
D63
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-585-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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